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Title: Inscribing Identity: Insights for Teaching from ESL Students' Journals.
Author : TESL Canada Journal
Release Date : January 22, 2007
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 211 KB

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Introduction One of the most critical realities of contemporary education in a globalized world is the growing cultural, racial, and linguistic diversity in schools and the difficulties involved in educating and empowering vast numbers of students who do not speak the majority language. Giving a voice to immigrant and refugee students, many of whom are from deprived and traumatized backgrounds (Rutter, 2006), is an extraordinary challenge for teachers and schools today. The acquisition of a new language is closely tied to social identity, textual practices in school contexts, and in many cases the subordination of language and text varieties that lie outside the dominant discourses in schools. Tied to the identity work of these students is the development of communicative competence in a range of discourses and genres. In this article I look at the importance of journal-writing for high school ESL students and their teachers. I argue that student journals are an exemplary genre for learning to write and for self-representation and that they have great potential for learning by both students and teachers.